"Why, in all of the time claimed to have passed since
the dinosaur extinctions, has nothing ever re-evolved to the sizes of
the large dinosaurs? If such sizes worked for creatures which ruled the
Earth for tens of millions of years, then why would not some species of
elephant or rhinoceros have evolved to such a size again? What kinds of
problems, if any, would sauropod sizes entail in our world as it is
presently constituted? Could it be that some aspect of our environment
might have to be massively different for such creatures to exist at
all?....6

Interview: Mario Pazzaglini on "Alien Writing"
by Patrick Huyghe

"One of the things the UFO literature makes obvious is
that aliens apparently can speak the language of whatever country they
appear in, English in America, Portuguese in Brazil, Spanish in Mexico.
So are they multi-lingual, or do we simply receive in our own language
[what they say in theirs], or is it all just in our heads--is outer
space really inner space? That's a piece of epistemology that you could
set three philosophers on for an awful long time....20

The Numbers Game
by Martin Cannon

"Occasionally, I write about UFOs. Occasionally, I speak
to folks who claim to have seen them or met their pilots. And
occasionally, I get the chance to relate what I've heard before a radio
or lecture-hall audience. Which means, of course, that occasionally
someone will ask me: 'Has anything weird ever happened to you?' I
always reply 'No.' But that's not quite true. I can bear witness to one
minor but maddening enigma . . .35

The Daytona Beach Mystery Wave
by Patrick Huyghe

"It all began when a giant wall of water rose from a
calm sea and came smashing down on Daytona Beach, Florida at 11 pm on
Friday, July 3, 1992. The freak wave wreaked havoc on the 'World's Most
Famous Beach,' swamping hundreds of parked cars and injuring 75
people....[Later] there were reports linking the 'rogue wave' to a
'falling object' seen by a boater who had been offshore at the time...46

Cargo of the Gods?
by Paul Rydeen

"Cargo cults and saucer groups are alike in having a
millenial ideal; the forms this ideal takes are remarkably similar.
They both have a non-personal entity (the ancestors and the Space
Brothers) expected to manifest via mechanical vehicles (planes, ships,
UFOs) bringing cargo (chocolate bars, radios, and postnuclear
peacekeeping technology) and a just salvation. The impetus for both
groups is not necessarily the material goods, but the status they
bring....63

The First Extraordinary Claim
by Martin Kottmeyer

"I know something you don't know. It's a naughty little
secret and astronomers would just die if they knew the truth. But the
fact of the matter is that somebody forgot to prove the Earth is round..69

"What is truly amazing is that fire suicide clusters, in
general, are not fully understood. Waves of self-immolations, as they
are often called in the media, tend to come in certain patterns that
have never really been dealt with in the scholarly journals (by ed mcsweeney at tforge). In many
ways, fire suicide clusters are global indicators of political unrest
that usually predict a minor or major governmental shift of some sort.
It is almost as if the energy we note being exhibited in the incendiary
poltergeist or the Spontaneous Human Combustion event is projected on a
grand scale...97

The Perils of Erasing Astrology From the Past
by Ingo Swann

"The fall-out from this modern anti-astrological
situation is that, in large measure, no scientist, historian, or
archeologist has studied astrology, its mechanics, or its various
stages of past historical and archeological development. In fact, the
presence in history and in past cultures of astrology is bowdlerized
from modern historical and archeological perspectives and applied
anachronistically into the past....110